Chapter 8 – Page 18

Hey there, Guildies. I’d like to thank T for filling in for me on lettering while I was away being all sorts of On A Boat for the winter season holiday-associated interim. We’re back to 100% and ready to continue crushing your hopes for our intrepid band into the new year. That said, we once again had to use the Orphan Donor’s Holiday Fund we raised selling lemon bars outside the Safeway to get the following pages Reimaginated™ thanks to our friends over at Industrial Light & Magic:

Discussion (98) ¬

I don’t really think addressing Frig as “girl” is enough to mark him as sexist… It’s kind of standard “haugty villain” fare to refer to ineffectual attackers with the general nouns “boy” and “girl” and the like, isn’t it?

Syr’Nj looks very fletching in that last panel. We are all quivering with excitement to find out what happens next. Hopefully she won’t bow out, but keep a broadhead on her shoulders. When all is said and done, she may move up a nock or two.

Syr’Nj may have been a field medic … but in the kind of wars she would have trained for, medics wouldn’t have nice red crosses on their helmets and the Geneva Convention to (theoretically) protect them.

A certain amount of bad-assery would probably have been considered a Good Thing.

And then there was her comment about “Favourite nightmares about Basic Training”…

I just remembered a Baen Books blurb from a Holly Lisle novel; though Syr’Nj’s relationship to Bryon is different than that of the characters in the book: They broke the most important rule – Never piss off the mommy!

I was actually thinking the exact same thing. I mean, she had a vial of something to give to byron. She could just as easily slipped another vial of something onto the arrow. She was there when the troll announced how awesomely regenerative he is.

Syr’Nj: Dear Father, please do not be angry at this, but today i committed a cliche. You know, the one about us woods elves being natural archers? In my defense i can only say that first, the life of the man i love was at stake, and second, those cliches do come from somewhere after all.

to be perfectly honest, if you live in a wood – and have been trained as a soldier – your going to be skilled in a bow, just for the fact its darned more effective that rushing through the trippy, pokey underbrush with swords (which is never a good idea, woodsperson or no). It’s not so much a cliche as common sense

also, it’s shoulder armour, it’s designed to be totally innefective and do nothing but improve a character visually: see in point, byron

Seeing where her hand is on the bow, compared to where the top and bottom of the bow are, that’s not a longbow. Longbows tend to be around 6′ tall, in which case Syr’nj would have to be at least 20′.
Also, that’s Dusty’s bow. He’s certainly not tall enough to have been using one in the first place.

So we’re back to her awesome skill and angry determination as to how that one went through metal.

I say that next one should be a headshot. If not in the eye.
Takers on this bet?

But there were horse-archers (the Huns I think?) who carried shortbows just about as powerful as the English yew longbow. Plus, dwarves being master craftsmen and all, I bet that thing’s laminated for even more power in proportion to its size…

Any bow that can take down a charging warhorse (with a chest shot) is not going have much trouble with a bit of plate mail. Though, I thought Whore-key’s armor was hide or boiled leather *shrug*

I’m pretty sure it just looks confusing because her humerus is pointed straight towards the audience. And… yeah. It’s sort’ve hard to see at first, much like strange optical illusions, but once you see it, it joins the ranks of things you can’t unsee.

Yeah… Harki’s screwed.
Up close and personal, we have Frigg, who’s already ticked off at what happened to Dusty. Come on, she blocked his last attack with her mace WHILE headbutting him in the stomach.

And then we have Syr’nj. Who left her dedication to not harming living things on the ground when she picked up Dusty’s bow and arrows all because of Harki’s little impaling trick.

And then we have Bandit out there somewhere. And you know she’s at her most dangerous when no one knows where she is.

You noticed what Frigg was blocking with, too. It’s probably heavier than her shield, which would make it more effective.

As for the shoulder armor, I thought it looked more like hardened and gilded leather than metal. Even a recurve (a good solid dwarven recurve) should be able to get through that with the bonuses that come with being fired by a Wood Elf (not a woods elf… S’rynj has a real affinity with wood).

I love this story. It has all the stereotypes, and it is true to them, but it plays with them as well.

I’m rooting for Frigg, here, ’cause Syr’nj isn’t doing much in the way of offensive. Frigg’s, like, RIGHT THERE. That troll guy took down two guys before the the rest could even react, so… Frigg has it kind of hard-off right now, doesn’t she? Furthermore (love that word >ww<

Everyone knows Syr’nj’s next shot won’t kill the troll. Even with the elf racial bonus he would heal all of the damage Frigg dealt, and keep healing. But back on topic, she will remove his left eye, Harki will change his name to Gruumish and rule all Orcs!

Yeeaaah. Except he would have to contend with with Obould-who-is-Gruumsh if he did that and well.. Harky is a tought cookie, but Obould ? He is a Titan in the flesh of an orc and has a full plate mail with plot armor level protection.

Oh, that’s a mess. What, me talk good? No. Bad talk do. I swear, I typed that better than you see here. See, it was SUPPOSED to be “attack that bright red gem in Harki’s stomach ever since this fight began” There were inbedded links to the tvtropes articles for “Attack it’s Weak Point” and “For Massive Damage”

Somehow, I failed even basic HTML. Can we has a preview function? Please?

The source is a Sony press conference that spawned a series of memes- basically, a game was being promoted as being based on battles that occur in Japanese History, when a “Giant Enemy Crab” appeared on the screen, upon which you had to “attack the weakpoint for massive damage”. Other LOLworthy moments occurred as well.

Here’s an idea. That Troll is going to heal the puncture wounds from those arrows. But with Frigg distracting him, he can’t pull the arrows out in time. He is going to heal with the arrows STILL IN HIM. Do you know what that spells? It spells W-E-A-K P-O-I-N-T.

… Am I the only one to have noticed that there’s actual scarring around the gem in the troll’s navel?
Personally, I’d say that makes it look like a potential weak point yes, but… might also be some power-booster/mind-control thing?

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